# Verbs with en and con: pensar en, soñar con, confiar en

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**Summary.** En: pensar en, confiar en, insistir en, tardar en, consistir en, fijarse en. Con: soñar con, contar con, casarse con, encontrarse con, cumplir con.

Some verbs lock onto en: pensar en ('think about', pienso en vos), confiar en ('trust'), insistir en, consistir en, fijarse en ('notice'), tardar en + infinitive ('take time to', tardó en responder), quedar en ('agree to'). Others lock onto con: soñar con ('dream of/about'), contar con ('count on'), casarse con, cumplir con, encontrarse con.

Pensar is worth a closer look, because the preposition changes the meaning: pensar en = think about someone/something; pensar de = have an opinion about (¿qué pensás de…?); and pensar + infinitive (no preposition) = plan to (pienso viajar en julio).

The catch for English and French speakers is that the Spanish preposition often differs from theirs — 'dream of' but soñar con, 'think about' but pensar en — so the safest approach is to memorize each verb together with its preposition as a single vocabulary item.

## Examples
- Confío en tu criterio. — I trust your judgment.
- Soñé con la casa de Tarija. — I dreamed about the Tarija house.
- Quedamos en vernos el sábado; cuento con vos. — We agreed to meet on Saturday; I'm counting on you.

Related: grammar.prepositions.con-uses, grammar.prepositions.en-uses

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